Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.
When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.
Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.
... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.
Violence begins with the fork.